3rd and 5th Grade Common Core Sequence of Events Resources

Story sequencing will allow third graders to improve their reading comprehension by putting the sequence of events in the correct order.

Help your third grader practice following directions on how to build a tornado in a bottle, and build his reading comprehension skills in the process.

In this worksheet, children determine the order of events in a story about two friends who like to roller skate together in their neighborhood.

Young readers and sports enthusiasts will have a ball practicing sequence of events in this biography of Jackie Robinson. 

This worksheet helps your child focus on prediction and comprehension in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Kids will read the classic fable and answer written prompts.

Learn how the animals of the Chinese Zodiac came to be with this Chinese New Year folktale! 

If your budding reading is writing their first book report, help them nail down the plot with this quick review worksheet.

Read about the parts of a plot diagram, then fill out the details of a story that you have recently read in the diagram.

Encourage critical thinking and support literacy development by asking questions as students read the final chapters of The Great Fire.

After reading a fable or folktale, students will use this cute graphic organizer to record the most important things that happened in the beginning, middle, and end. Then they'll try their hand at identifying the moral of the story.

Poetry is a vibrant genre, especially as infused with visual and multimedia elements. Use this graphic organizer with your class to analyze such features in poetry.

Characters often change over the course of a story, and this worksheet will help young readers track and understand their development. Students can use this graphic organizer to consider various elements of a character's development throughout a story.

This old Native American myth, The Raven Steals the Light, is the perfect story to spook -- but not scare -- kids this Halloween.

Use this resource to teach your students how to use signal words as they explain the beginning, middle, and end of a fictional story.

Use this awesome story mountain template to help young readers understand the different elements of a story. Students will use this activity to organize their thoughts about the beginning, problem, climax, solution, and ending of a story.

Read Vasilisa the Brave, one of Russia's most famous folk tales, with your child this Halloween, then help her answer the comprehension questions at the end.

Have your child try her hand at storyboarding in this reading comprehension sheet.

Visual and multimedia elements in fiction texts enhance the reader’s experience. Character perspectives, use of language, and creative text physical features bring stories to life!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Visual and multimedia elements in scripts and plays enhance the reader’s experience and give important directions for how to translate texts for an audience. Get your class analyzing scripts with such elements using this graphic organizer.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Exploring Sequence with Signal Words.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Character Actions in Order.